A/RES/62/128 development, technical advice and training and promoting an exchange of experience and best practices through, inter alia, conferences, workshops and seminars at the national and regional levels; Also requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States 8. and the relevant international organizations, to consider effective ways and means of raising public awareness of the overall socio-economic impact of cooperatives, including the desirability and the feasibility of proclaiming an International Year of Cooperatives, and to report thereon to the General Assembly; Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General 9. Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 76th plenary meeting 18 December 2007 3